Instilling a love of soccer and beer in brewery

Belleville coach combines his passions by opening local beer-making place

Instilling a love of soccer and beer in brewery

BELLEVILLE, NJ — Mark Costa has a passion for making beer. He also has a strong love for the sport of soccer. For the Bloomfield resident, who coaches soccer in Belleville, it was a win-win for him to open up a soccer-inspired brewery in the town where he lives.  The brewery, Varitage Brew Works, located […]

Verona–Glen Ridge ice hockey wins three straight games

Verona–Glen Ridge ice hockey wins three straight games

VERONA/GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Verona–Glen Ridge high school ice hockey team defeated Newton, 6-0, Sunday, Jan. 28, at Richard J. Codey Arena in West Orange for its third win in a row to improve to 10-4-1 on the season. Verona senior Jack McEvoy had three goals and one assist, GR senior Pyotr Sysak had […]

Six students recognized for writing excellence

Six students recognized for writing excellence

Six Bloomfield elementary school students were recognized for essay writing excellence at last month’s Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration held at the New Light Baptist Church. There were 35 entries in the competition sponsored by the Bloomfield Commission on Civil Rights and notably, all six students attend either Berkeley or Carteret elementary schools. “We are […]

State athletic association rules no bias against CHS basketball player

State athletic association rules no bias against CHS basketball player

The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) has determined Caldwell High School coaches and game officials did not act in a biased manner or with any biased intent when a Columbia High School girl’s basketball player was removed from a game because of the beads in her hair. “The evidence shows that they acted […]

Book about loons is a universal story

Book about loons is a universal story

Former Appleton Road resident and artist Theresa DeSalvio, currently living in the Hudson Valley, recently self-published, in June, a picture book which is popular among Adirondack residents and selling well. The book is a series of paintings with a narrative text, both executed by DeSalvio, who attributes its success to the subject matter: loons. The […]

Parents become students in ESL class

Parents become students in ESL class

Thanks to a federally-funded Title III grant, West Orange residents ages 18 and older are learning English at no cost. This program, led by Felix Plata, World Language/English as a Second Language supervisor for the West Orange Public School District, has two objectives: to offer a supportive program for multilingual West Orange residents that develops […]

Film remembers East Orange artist

Film remembers East Orange artist

Frequenting the same artistic circles, filmmaker Rico James of Brazen Boy Films and contemporary American artist Scott Patterson struck up a friendship. Their camaraderie deepened when Patterson, who is known as The Me Nobody Knows and TMNK, relocated to a studio closer to the filmmaker’s Miami home in 2014. “We ran in the same circles,” […]

Two sworn in as Glen Ridge Library Board trustees

GLEN RIDGE — A book editor and a technology executive have been added to the Glen Ridge Public Library Board of Trustees. At the regularly scheduled Board Meeting on Jan. 10, Edward Kastenmeier and Marilyn Law were sworn in as trustees, following the approval by the Glen Ridge Town Council on Jan. 2. Kastenmeier and […]